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Percival Leigh - Comic English Grammar

This is a basic grammar, treating of the parts of speech, syntax, versification, pronunciation and punctuation. The listener is warned that there is quite a dated feel about this little grammar as the author,...

Ruth Golding 3 hours 38 minutes

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Irishman's difficulties with the Dutch language

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Cuey-na-Gael - Irishman's difficulties with the Dutch language

Jack O'Neill, an Irishman, has just returned from a month's holiday in The Netherlands. Before he left, he had boasted to his friends that he would learn the Dutch language within a fortnight. On his return, he has to...

Anna Simon 4 hours 59 minutes

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M. L. Nesbitt - Grammar-Land

In this charming 1877 book of grammar instruction for children, we are introduced to the nine parts of speech and learn about the rules that govern them in Grammar-Land. «Judge Grammar is far mightier than any Fairy...

Kara Shallenberg 2 hours 45 minutes

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Raphael Kühner - Elementary Greek Grammar

We have followed the Grammars of Kühner, known as his «Large» and «School» Grammars. [...] Omitting the learned dissertations and numerous details of the original, we have endeavored to furnish to the student, in a...

Rapunzelina and 8 more 10 hours 2 minutes

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William Strunk, Jr. - Elements of Style

“The Elements of Style (1918) by William Strunk, Jr. is an American English writing style guide. It is one of the best-known and most influential prescriptive treatment of English grammar and usage, and often is...

Nicholas James Bridgewater 1 hour 51 minutes

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Introduction to the Greek of the New Testament

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George Lovell Cary - Introduction to the Greek of the New Testament

A collection of lessons (primarily in grammar) for New Testament Greek (also known as Koine) collected by a professor at Meadville Theological School of Pennsylvania. There are over 80 short lessons, each covering an...

M.White and 4 more 4 hours 32 minutes

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Brief Grammar of the Portuguese Language

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John Casper Branner - Brief Grammar of the Portuguese Language

Dr. Branner was a recognized authority on the geology of South American republics, especially Brazil, having organized and headed the Stanford Expedition to Brazil in 1911, among others. In 1910 he published this...

Leni 6 hours 53 minutes

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Sir Arthur Cotton - Arabic Primer

“Languages”, Sir Arthur Cotton writes, “are usually learnt as if it took a long time to learn the grammar &c., but that to speak with a good pronunciation and expression, and freely, and to catch the words from a...

Nicholas James Bridgewater 4 hours 24 minutes

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Persian Self-Taught (in Roman Characters) with English Phonetic Pronunciation

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Shaykh Hasan - Persian Self-Taught (in Roman Characters) with English Phonetic Pronunciation

“This volume is primarily intended to supply a working and practical knowledge of the Persian language, for the benefit of those who have not the time or the inclination to master the grammar, and yet require to use...

Nicholas James Bridgewater 8 hours 40 minutes

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Helen Fryer - Esperanto Teacher

The international language Esperanto was first released to the world in 1887, when L. L. Zamenhof published his first book, «Dr. Esperanto's International Language». Since that time, many learning books have been...

Nicholas James Bridgewater and 4 more 8 hours 22 minutes

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Dictionary of English Synonymes, Vol. 01

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Richard Soule - Dictionary of English Synonymes, Vol. 01

A Dictionary of English Synonymes and Synonymous or Parallel Expressions, Designed as a Practical Guide to Aptness and Variety of Phraseology is a project for new LibriVox members to practice recording and using...

Betsie Bush and 10 more 3 hours 43 minutes

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Grenville Kleiser - Fifteen Thousand Useful Phrases

A Practical Handbook of Pertinent Expressions, Striking Similes, Literary, Commercial, Conversational, and Oratorical Terms, for the Embellishment of Speech and Literature, and The Improvement of the Vocabulary of...

Betsie Bush and 45 more 16 hours

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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